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Anonymous FTP Controls

You can allow users to connect to your anonymous FTP directory without having a password to login. This may be useful if you have files that you wish to be publicly available for download. Please note that allowing anonymous users to access any part of your system may be considered a security hole.

Anonymous FTP Welcome Message

Enter the message your visitors will see when they connect to your anonymous FTP server:

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What is FTP?

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It allows you to transfer files to and from the server that your web site is on. To transfer files, you will need a FTP client and a FTP account. The advantage of FTP over downloading files from a web site is that with FTP, you can transfer a whole directory of files at a time, rather than one by one.

What is Anonymous FTP?

Anonymous FTP allows anyone to access a specified directory without a username or password. This means that anyone can access the files in your anonymous directory. Your anonymous directory is public_ftp/.

Configuring Access

If the box next to allow anonymous access to ftp://ftp.mydomain.com is checked, anyone will be able to connect to your public_ftp/ folder and download and modify files. They will not be able upload files unless the box next to allow anonymous uploads to ftp://ftp.mydomain.com is checked.

If the box next to allow anonymous uploads to ftp://ftp.mydomain.com is checked, anyone will be able to connect to your public_ftp/incoming folder and upload files. They will not be able download or modify files unless the box next to allow anonymous access to ftp://ftp.mydomain.com is checked.

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